G'day, seems the A8 corner is pretty quiet. I'm slowly going through the dead Atari's and find myself looking at my spare parts 130XE. I resurrected a 600XL a few years ago and rebuilt two 130XE's into one good one. I suspect the issue with the leftovers is the DRAM. I didn't want to upgrade my good 130XE but figure a 1mb upgrade would be faster than replacing all the DRAM anyway.

So my question is, what is avaliable for 1MB upgrades in the 130XE these days? Is Bob Wooleys still the way to go?

Well tagline at the top of the page is is "A forum about Atari 16/32 computers and their clones." - I never saw an A8 machine growing up in the UK. I only bought a 65XE recently because it looks just like a baby ST

Ive always had the impression that atariage was more north american based users who were exposed to the 8 bit line growing up, the ST's didn't exactly fare well in the USA for a number of reasons, but did very well in europe and the UK. There have been an impressive number of 8bit projects and upgrades over the years and the 8bit community is very active on that forum. Ditto here for the ST/TT/Falcon line.

I was considering the 1MB SIMM update, and found out there are quite many possibilities, so I went the easy path and expanded the 130XE to 320XE, that's an easy one. The 1MB SIMM update is still on my TODO list, but I don't have any spare 130XE right now. I've got two, one will remain pristine, the other one has that 320XE mod already.I am expecting some 800XLs in a few months, and might go that path instead.There's actually quite a number of 1MB SIMM updates - I need to review them and evaluate. As a beginner, I am not quite up to speed with all those RAMBO/COMPYSHOP etc. standards Ctirad's module is impressive, and I've heard a lot of positive feedback - but I don't like such a big beast sticking out from my Atari. It always reminds me the legendary TI99/4A expansions

My first Atari was 130XE, my class mates had 800XL. After half year we upgraded the data transfer from the magnetic tape with some extra wire and software cartridge called Turbo2000 (it was year 1988). Later on I tried to upgrade RAM from initial 128KB to 1MB and bought another cartridge, it is pretty cheap nowaday. Later I tried 16bit Atari 520ST with floppy drive, mostly for games and music composition, lasted 10 years and now it is sold